# Introduction

> What Slicekit is, who it is for, and how the documentation is organised.

## What is Slicekit?

Slicekit is a premium, full-stack SaaS boilerplate: an event-driven **.NET 10 API** (vertical slice +
DDD + CQRS and messaging) paired with a type-safe **Vite + React SPA** (vertical slice + TanStack +
shadcn/ui). You buy it once, clone it and make it your own: the starting point for a real product,
not a tutorial app.

The goal is simple: give you the foundation every SaaS needs (authentication, a typed API client,
background messaging, storage, observability and CI), assembled and tested, so your first commit is a
feature instead of a framework.

## Who it is for

- **Founders and small teams** who want to start from a working system rather than an empty repo.
- **Engineers** who like vertical slices, explicit code and a mainstream stack you fully own, with no lock-in.
- **Agents and AI tooling.** The codebase ships `AGENTS.md` routers and per-side conventions so
  automated contributors have the context they need.

## How the docs are organised

| Section         | What it covers                                                           |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Getting Started | What ships in the box, install prerequisites, run the stack, repo layout. |
| Concepts        | The design: architecture, vertical slices, DDD, CQRS, events and auth.   |
| Backend guides  | How-to recipes for the API: migrations, permissions, OAuth, files, more. |
| Frontend        | The SPA: structure, the typed client, forms, languages and UI gating.    |
| Operations      | Configuration, observability, deployment and running behind a proxy.     |

If you are here to try it, jump straight to [Getting started](/docs/getting-started). For a tour of
everything that ships, see [what Slicekit includes](/docs/what-slicekit-includes). If you want to
understand the design first, read the [architecture overview](/docs/architecture).

## What you own

Slicekit is a one-time purchase under a commercial license, not a subscription or a hosted service.
Once you buy it, the entire repository is yours: clone it, delete what you do not need, and keep the
parts that save you weeks. Lifetime updates are included. See [pricing](/#pricing) for details.